mzollin / qr-pirate

crawl QR-codes from search engines and look for bitcoin private keys

qr-pirate

crawl QR-codes from search engines and look for Bitcoin wallet private keys


Disclaimer: You probably won't find any private keys of wallets that still contain Bitcoins. If you do, please leave them where they are, this tool is for demonstration purposes only. Also don't put photos of your private keys on the internet.

Setup and usage:

• sudo apt install python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-pip libzbar0 libzbar-dev
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

example usage: ./qrpirate.sh "bitcoin qr"
output: keylist_unique.txt
The balance of the wallet associated with each found private key will be output on the terminal.

Details

You can use the qrpirate.sh bash script to automate the whole process from search keyword input to private key output, or use the qrcrawler.py and qr2key.py tools on their own. The bash script automates the following steps:

1. Calls qrcrawler.py with the provided search keywords as an argument to crawl google, bing and baidu for images. They will be downloaded to a qrbooty folder with subfolders for every search engine.

2. Renames and moves the files up from the subfolders to the qrbooty folder with unique names.

3. Calls qr2key.py to scan the downloaded images in the qrbooty folder for QR-codes and checks if they contain Bitcoin wallet private keys. The keys will be saved in a keylist.txt file.

4. Removes duplicates in keylist.txt and outputs the unique keys to a keylist_unique.txt file

Python dependencies:

• icrawler
• pillow
• zbarlight
• pycoin

qr-pirate's Issues

restore python3 compatibility

Some dependencies required for the automated wallet balance checking are not compatible with python3. These should be ported, or different packages that are python3 compatible have to be found.

Used your code for a google dork able mod

Thought the idea of the repo is nice, but to really max it out one maybe needs to query detailed specific searches - so i went through a few image crawlers and came up with https://github.com/wolfhong/pisces - which seemed to be a perfect match, it works with any search query . Ive linked your repo in the readme.

https://github.com/alphaaurigae/Bitcoin-QR-dork

B

Initial Update

Hi 👊

This is my first visit to this fine repo, but it seems you have been working hard to keep all dependencies updated so far.

Once you have closed this issue, I'll create separate pull requests for every update as soon as I find one.

That's it for now!

Happy merging! 🤖

replace the bash script with a Python-only solution

Implement the file moving and duplicate removing in Python and get rid of the bash script. Ideally also Windows users will be able to use the completely autonomous process.

support other cryptocurrencies

We should be able to extend the regex so qr-pirate can also search for cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin.

check wallets for non-zero balance

Use some python module (pybitcointools?) to check if the wallets belonging to the found private keys contain bitcoins (non-zero balance).